Merwin Sales Company NY: BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS. Americana--Sets of Standard Authors--Old Law Books--First Editions--Periodicals--Maps--Engravings Historical Pamphlets, etc., etc., TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION, Wednesday Morning and Afternoon February 26th, 1913, COMMENCING AT 10:30 A. M. , 19130226,

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 01, 1913 - January 01, 1913

Page Size: 868 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
299	H. W. Fuller, editor	GREENBAG (THE)	Boston	1890	USD -	1.25
300	Hans Egede	GREENLAND. A Description of Greenland	London	1818	USD -	0.40
301		GREENLAND. Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland	London	1837	USD -	0.30
302	HALLAM (ARTHUR H.)	HALLAM (ARTHUR H.). The Poems of	London	1893	USD -	0.15
303	HALLAM (HENRY)	Constitutional History of England...	New York	1880	USD -	0.15
304		HALLAM'S MIDDLE AGES, N. Y., 1860...			USD -	1.00
305	HALLECK (FITZ-GREENE)	Fanny (Revised Edition), 1821...	New York	1821	USD -	0.15
306	HAMILTON	Reminiscences of James A. Hamilton; or, Men and Events at Home and Abroad, During Three Quarters of a Century	New York	1869	USD -	0.30
307	HARDY (THOMAS)	Wessex Poems; Poems of the Past and the Present	New York	1899	USD -	1.05
308	HARRIS (JOEL CHANDLER)	The Story of Aaron (so named), the Son of Ben Ali, Told by his Friends and Acquaintances	Boston	1896	USD -	0.50
309	HARRISON (GEN. WILLIAM)	The Harrison and Log Cabin Song Book	Columbus	1840	USD -	1.00
310	HARTE (WALTER B.)	Meditations in Motley	Boston	1894	USD -	0.30
311		HARTFORD, CONN. Early Imprints, etc.			USD -	0.15
312		HARVARD COLLEGE			USD -	1.00
313		HARVARD COLLEGE			USD -	1.00
314		HARVARD COLLEGE			USD -	0.25
315	HAWTHORNE (NATHANIEL)	The Scarlet Letter and the Blithedale Romance	London	1883	USD -	0.60
316	HAYES (JOHN R.)	The Old-Fashioned Garden and other Verses	Philadelphia	1895	USD -	0.15
317	HAYNE (PAUL HAMILTON)	HAYNE (PAUL HAMILTON). Poems	Boston	1882	USD -	0.75
318	HAZLETT AND HUNT	The Miscellaneous Works of William Hazlett...	New York	1859	USD -	0.13
319	C. W. Saleeby	HEALTH, STRENGTH AND HAPPINESS...			USD -	0.25
320		HEBREW VESTMENTS. Vestitus Sacerdotum Hebraeorum	Amsterdam	1698	USD -	0.75
321	Mark A. Porny	HERALDRY. The Elements of Heraldry	London	1755	USD -	1.00
322	HERBERT (GEORGE)	Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations	New York (Printed London)	1904	USD -	0.30
323	HERBERT (HENRY WM.)	The Magnolia. 1836	New York	1836	USD -	0.75
324	HERBERT (HENRY WM.)	The Fair Puritan. An Historical Romance of The Days of Witchcraft	Philadelphia	1875	USD -	0.10
325	HERFORD (OLIVER)	A Child's Primer of Natural History...	New York	1899	USD -	0.25
326	HIGGINSON (T. W.)	Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic	New York	1899	USD -	0.35
327		HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of the Great Revolution...			USD -	0.10
328		HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL PAMPHLETS			USD -	1.10
329		HISTORICAL LIGHTS: Six Thousand Quotations from Standard Histories and Biographies	New York	1892	USD -	0.30
330		HISTORICAL OUTLINES of English Accidence (Morris)...			USD -	0.30
331		HISTORICAL PAMPHLETS. Account of the Taxes of Bucks County (Pa.), 1787...			USD -	0.30
332		HISTORICAL REGISTER. New Vermerltes. Historisch und Georraphisches Allgemenies Lexicon	Basel	1742	USD -	0.10
333	C. F. McGlashan	HISTORY OF THE DONNER PARTY. A Tragedy of the Sierra	Sacramento, Cal.	1907	USD -	0.80
334	HOLMES (O. W.)	Urania: a Rhymed Lesson	Boston	1846	USD -	0.75
335		HOMCEPATHIC QUARTERLY	Buffalo	1869	USD -	Not Sold
336	HOOD (THOMAS)	HOOD (THOMAS). The Works of	New York	1861	USD -	0.70
337	Irving (Washington)	HUDSON RIVER. A Book of the Hudson	New York	1849	USD -	0.30
338		HUDSON RIVER. View of the Hudson	London and New York	1850	USD -	0.10
339	Beach (Lewis)	HUDSON RIVER. Cornwall	Newburgh, N. Y.	1873	USD -	0.40
340	Buckman (David Lear)	HUDSON RIVER. Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River	New York	1907	USD -	0.20
341	HULME (EDWARD M.)	An Evening Thought and other Verses	San Francisco	1896	USD -	0.10
342	T. H. Hittell	HUNTING. The Adventures of James Capen Adams. Grizzly Bear hunter of California	New York	1911	USD -	0.80
343		ILLINOIS PAMPHLETS			USD -	0.70
344		ILLINOIS STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY. Transactions of. Years 1878, 80-84, 86 and 87	Chicago	1878	USD -	0.50
345		ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. Mostly New...			USD -	0.25
346		INDIANA. A Biographical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men of the State of Indiana	Cincinnati	1880	USD -	0.30
347		INDIANS. A History of the Indian Wars with the First Settlers of the United States to the Commencement of the late War	Rochester	1828	USD -	1.00
348	Copway (George)	INDIANS. The Life, History and Travels of Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh	Albany	1847	USD -	0.20
349	Geo. J. and Anthony Ulloa	INDIANS. Secret Expedition to Peru, etc.	Boston	1851	USD -	0.15
350	Hamilton (James, D.D.)	INDIANS. A Memoir of Richard Williams, Surgeon: Catechist to the Patagonian Missionary Society in Terra Del Fuego	Nashville	1856	USD -	0.35
351	Riggs (Stephen R.)	INDIANS. Tah-Koo Wah-Kan; or, the Gospel Among the Dakotas	Boston	1869	USD -	0.40
352	Fanny Kelly	INDIANS. Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians	Hartford	1872	USD -	0.50
353		INDIANS. A Collection of Hymns, in Muncey and English, for the use of the Native Indians	Toronto	1874	USD -	0.15
354	Jos. J. Mickley	INDIANS. Brief Account of Murders by the Indians, and the Cause Thereof, in Northampton County, Pa., Oct. 8, 1763	Philadelphia	1875	USD -	0.15
355		INDIANS. Annual Reports of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1875, 1877, 1878, 1880	Washington		USD -	0.75
356		INDIANS. Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and Family, who were Surprised by the Indians and Taken from their Farm on Mahoning Creek, in Penn Township	Lancaster	1890	USD -	1.25
357		INDIANS. Timucua Language, Florida and Georgia. Equisse d'une Grammaire du Timucua Langue de la Floride...			USD -	1.60
358		INDIANS. The Four Kings of Canada; being a Succinct Account of the Four Indian Princes lately arriv'd from North America	London	1710	USD -	1.20
359	Hathaway (Benj.)	INDIANS. The League of the Iroquois, and other Legends	Chicago	1892	USD -	0.25
360	Dorsey (George A.)	INDIANS. The Cheyenne. Part I, Ceremonial Organization...	Chicago	1905	USD -	0.25
361		INDIANS. Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley (Swanton)...	Washington	1911	USD -	1.00
362		INDIANS. The Chieftians of Champlain. A Story of Adventure in the New World	New York		USD -	0.75
363		INDIANS. (American)			USD -	1.00
364		INDIAN BASKET WEAVING...			USD -	1.10
365	I. Ray	INSANITY. A Treastise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity	Boston	1871	USD -	0.50
366	E. C. Spitzka	INSANITY. Its Classification, Diagnosis and Treatment	New York	1883	USD -	0.40
367		INSURANCE			USD -	0.15
368	Matt. Dutton	IRELAND. The Law of Landlords and Tenants in Ireland	Dublin	1726	USD -	0.10
369	IRVING (WASHINGTON)	Bracebridge Hall; or, the Humourists	New York	1822	USD -	0.15
370	IRVING (WASHINGTON)	IRVING (WASHINGTON). The Works of	New York	1860	USD -	3.00
371		IRISH ELOQUENCE. The Speeches of the Celebrated Irish Orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan. To which is added the appeal of Robert Emmett at the close of his trial for High Treason	Boston	1857	USD -	1.25
372		ITALY. Illustrated and Described in a Series of Views from Drawings by Stanfield, Roberts, Leitch, Barnard, and others	London	1864	USD -	0.15
373	F. W. Clarke	ITHACA (N. Y.). Views Around Ithaca	Ithaca	1869	USD -	1.55
374	JAMES (HENRY)	The Social Significance of Our Institutions	Boston	1861	USD -	0.50
375	JAMES (HENRY)	The Tragic Muse; The Aspern Papers, etc.	New York	1890	USD -	1.00
376	JAMES (HENRY)	Picture and Text	New York	1893	USD -	0.20
377	JAMES (HENRY)	What Maisie Knew	Chicago	1897	USD -	0.25
378	Osborn (Captain Sherard, C.B.)	JAPAN. A Cruise in Japanese Waters	Edinburgh	1859	USD -	0.15
379		JAY'S TREATY. A Defence of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation...	Philadelphia	1795	USD -	0.70
380	le R. P. Pierre Milet de la Compagnie de Jesus	JESUITS. Relation de sa Captivite parmi les Onneiouts en 1690-1	New York	1864	USD -	1.00
381		JESUITS. Recueil de Pieces sur la Negociation entre la Nouvelle France et la Nouvelle Angleterre	Nouvelle York	1866	USD -	0.50
382		JESUITS. Epistola Rev. P. Gabrielis Dreuillettes, Societatis Jesu Presbyteri	Albany	1869	USD -	1.00
383		JEWS IN AMERICA. The Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Jews in the United States: Addresses delivered at Carnegie Hall, New York 1905	New York	1906	USD -	0.25
384	JOHNSON (SAMUEL)	Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets...	New York	1859	USD -	1.25
385		JOSEPHUS...			USD -	1.00
386		JUNIUS, LETTERS OF...			USD -	0.25
387	Mary A. Humphrey	KANSAS. The Squatter Sovereign; or, Kansas in the 50's. A Life Picture of the Early Settlement, etc.	Chicago	1883	USD -	0.85
388		KANSAS. Portrait and Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kansas	Chicago	1888	USD -	0.30
389	KEATS	Letters of John Keats	London	1891	USD -	0.60
390		KENTUCKY LANDS			USD -	0.25
391		KENTUCKY LANDS. Preamble and Resolutions of the Legislature on Replevin and Endorsement Laws, 123; etc.			USD -	0.15
392	KNIGHT (CHARLES)	Half-Hours with the Best Authors	New York	1856	USD -	0.50
393	KNIGHT (MATTHEW R.)	KNIGHT (MATTHEW R.). Poems of Ten Years, 1877-86	Halifax	1887	USD -	0.20
394		LABOR QUESTION			USD -	0.35
395	Thomas Noon Talfourd	LAMB (CHARLES). The Life and Letters of	New York	1859	USD -	1.70
396	LAKE GEORGE	The Pensioner		1830	USD -	0.80
397	Simon Greenleaf	LAW. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence	Boston	1857	USD -	1.00
398	Frederick C. Brightly	LAW. A Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of the State of New York, from the Earliest Period to 1875	New York	1875	USD -	Not Sold

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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